Hello, my names Shaina if you may wonder. I am 15 years old and I come from a place called Kuigilnguq where I lived all my life since I was born. In my school, I like to study writing, reading, and Yupik. My goal is to graduate from high school and either go to college or training, but if I want a job that isn’t cheap, I’d rather go to college. I still haven’t decided if I should go straight to college or head to training. My career interests are being a pilot. I know it takes a lot of work to become a pilot. I know it takes a lot of math, reading, writing and many tests. But still I could become a pilot if I have the determination. Also, I’m interested in being a health-aide, helping sick people get better . My aunt always tells me that if I want to become a health-aide I would have to work very hard. She says that I would have to travel many times to take tests. My aunt also travels to different places to work in villages where she was assigned by her boss.
I like to go walking with my friends or 4-wheel riding with my friends or my relatives. Every time I go riding with them I always feel happy and wish that our happiness could last forever. I really love to go hunting with my cousin, my dad, and all the people I follow to hunt. I also like to go snow machine riding on our snow machine with my friends. We like to go water crossing or cruising on powder after snow storms. It makes me feel very excited and I always smile for a long time when ever we do that. Another thing I love to do is go egg hunting with my mom, grandma, siblings, or cousins. We love to laugh at each other when ever someone gets frightened by a bird. I’ve been enjoying staying here at KuC ever since we came.. The fun thing that ever happened this week was when we went swimming and then our supervisor John got tipped over by two girls. Another fun thing that happened was when we went kayaking and went swimming after. We had so much fun even though the water was cold.

Hello my name is Tabitha, and I’m from a village called Alakanuk, Alaska. Someday I would like to graduate from high school, go to either training or college, and become a pediatrician. A pediatrician is just a job that I maybe would like, but a great goal. I haven’t fully decided on what I want to become I do like kids and would like to help them when they get sick, but I still am not sure. Things I enjoy doing when I’m not in school or have spare time are hanging out with friends and family, taking rides and walks, boating, meeting new people, traveling, dancing, playing basketball, and having a great time. I arrived here at KUC Talent Search on Sunday. Since I’ve been here I had fun, met new people, went kayaking and had a great time. I enjoy the classes I take to prepare me for my future education. We have gone on tours, and I’m just waiting to go on the YKHC tour (which will probably be more interesting.) Being here is a great opportunity! You get prepared and have acquired knowledge about college, you meet new people, you have a great time, and they give you great opportunities, and hope for the best!

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Hi my name is Stephanie and I am from Oscarville, AK. My career interest is being a Hobo, I joke. My career interest is becoming a nurse. My goal is to graduate out of high school so that I can go to college because I want to learn more about stuff. I used to like math but now I don’t and now my favorite is either reading or writing.

I like to help out my mom and older sis, with the house and going to fish camp. I also like to play ball and go swimming with my friends. My favorite part of Talent Search so far is going to class because it is a lot of fun and I am learning lots. Today we just wrote about a day in our school. We even played Mofia which was so much fun, but it would be better with more people. Yesterday we played a game that Ben made up. I was to shy to ask around but I did, only a little bit.

Hello, my name is Tristan and I am from a southwestern native village called Kuigilnguq or Kwigillingok. I am fifteen years old and going to be sixteen in two months and six days. I like math because when I become a pilot I could multiply the weight of the freight and know how many pounds it totals. My personal interests outside of school are coming here to Talent Search, going salmon fishing, or staying my hometown and enjoying life as it comes. So far, my favorite part of Talent Search is when we to Hangar Lake to go kayaking, why I like to go kayaking during KuC camp is because we get to go in groups. That means trouble for anyone out in the lake because people can splash or get tipped over by my biggest brother, John.

Hello, my name is Megan, and I am from Kwigillingok, AK. I have lived in Kwig for fifteen years, all my life.
I love to hang out with my friends during school. My favorite subjects in school are, Writing, Reading, P.E., and Science. Hopefully, when I graduate I will go to college and learn some significant things. I want to become a health aide or a nurse, because I don’t want people to have health problems. My goal is to protect people from getting sick. That is my plan if I become a nurse or a health aid. The most fun thing for me is participating in sports. I love to play Mid-Coast Basketball with my team. Our name is the “Kwigillingok Eagles.” I will never stop playing basketball until I retire. The most fun subject at talent search ’09 was being on computers. I really like being on the computer because I get to type and check my other internet website. Another fun thing was playing a game with cards. I really enjoyed playing “Mafia” with my other group. Talent Search this year was a best year I ever took, 2009.

Hi my name is Waska, and I live in Tununak. I used to live in Kasigluk but when my dad got a job over at his home town, all of my family moved except my sister Sherry. I like math because sometimes we take a short break and mess around with our work and other stuff. My goals are to finish high school, go to college, and after college I would like to a NBA basketball player or an army dude. What I like to do for fun is go walking around and play basketball with adults that are more funny than high school and JR high players.

My favorite part of Talent Search is going into the computer lab and doing work, and after work it FREE TIME!! My favorite part of class is that I can talk to my best friend that’s right next to me (on my right) and she’s fun to talk to.

Hi, my name is Victoria and I am from Toksook Bay. My parents love to live there and so do I.

My academic and career interests and goals are: I love to learn about science and I would like to study some science things when I’m in college. I would also like to learn about some math.

My personal interests (when I’m not in school) are just to hang out with my friends and joke around, talk, go riding, laugh, and go swimming when it’s a bright sunny day. My friends and I try to travel together.

My favorite part so far in Talent Search is when we went to kayaking because I had a lot of fun. This year is my first time to go Talent Search so everything that we did is my first time here. When we went kayaking, I thought I was going to fall but I didn’t. While kayaking, I was so slow and the others went fast. Well, I wasn’t the only one that was behind. My other friend waited for me until I made it to the shore.

My other favorite is when we go to class because we have fun games to play. Well, it was mostly about playing games. The first day when we went to class it was just about guessing or trying to figure out what this game was and the next day we played Mafia. After we played games we wrote about some things. We described the food and going to High School for the first time.

I hope you are enjoying camp and I look forward to reading your posts and projects later this week…..

Ben

The one week of fisheries we had was very interesting. After a seine pull, setting some traps, and some netting, we caught a variety of fish.
The species we caught were a Spatulate Sculpin, or Icelus spatula, Starry Flounder, or Platichthys stellatus, Chum Salmon, or Onchorynchus keta, and Dolly varden, or Salvelinus malma.
The average size for the Spatulate Sculpin was 100 milimeters, the starry Flounder was 169 mm, the Chum Salmon was 41 mm. and the Dolly varden was 104 mm.
Besides just catching fish, we also logged some data of the habitat around them. We collected the average depth of the river, which was 24.5 cm, the average velocity, which was 0.57 m/s, and the total discharge, which was 0.896865 us per second.
The whole fish class was very interesting. I enjoyed it a lot. It gave me some more knowledge of fish and now has put me on a life-long quest to learn more about fish.
-Mitchell Forbes

On June 19th we took a cross section of the stream that fed into the lake.  It was clear water and was surrounded by tundra.  Much of the rocks in the river were an average of 6 on the Wentworth’s scale of substrate (smaller than my fist).  The average depth of this section of the river was 21 cm.  The average velocity of the river’s current was 0.53 m/s.  The total discharge of the river was around 0.897 meters cubed per second.

We caught a total of five different species of fish. Those are: Spatulate sculpin/Icelus spatula(1), Starry Flounder/Platichthys stellatus(5), Chum Salmon/Onchorynchus keta(5), Pink Salmon/Onchorynchus Gorbuscha(2), Dolly Varden/Salvelinus malma(16). The average length for the fishes were 100cm, 169cm, 141cm, 36cm, and 104cm. The averages for the depth, velocity, and the total discharge were:24.5cm, .57m/s, and 1.79373 uS.

So far, I’m having fun because I’m surrounded with fun people and the class is just another fun part during the day. I like being in this Camp because, its fun and theres food and stuff. So like… yeah and stuff…somehow…i don’t want to go home but i want to go home because i think its way better to stay home but then i dunno….life is hard:D so like have fun and stuff and work hard…lol:D:D:D: HAHAHA OH!! today… we went kayaking..it was fun and everything about the weather was good…because the sun finally shined upon our depressed souls…SIKE! haha but the sun actually did shine…funny… ok..im having fun so far and you know…its great…your welcome..bye:D
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In the Ellikarmiut Kuigat River, we went fishing and caught five different species of fish. The species were, (Icelus spatula)-Spatulate Sculpin, (Platichthys stellatus)-Starry Flounder, (Onchorynchus keta)-Chum Salmon, (Onchorynchus gorbuscha)-Pink Salmon, and (Salvelinus malma)-Dolly Varden. The average length for each species were; 100mm for the Sculpin, 169mm for the Starry Flounder, 41mm for the Chum, 36 for Pink, and 104 for the Dolly Varden. Also, the river habitat we observed were depth, the velocity for the river flow and the discharge. Average depth found was, 24.5cm, average velocity found was, 0.57m/s, and the total disharge in the river was, 1.79373.

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Napoleon Atti
(Colin)

On June 16, we went fish seining on the river by the camp and we caught some fishES. We identified 5 different types of fishes, which included 5 chum salmons (Onchorynchus keta), a dolly varden (Salvelinus malma), a spatulate sculpin (Icelus spatula), 5 starry flounders (Platichthys stellatus), and 2 pink salmons (Onchorynchus gorbuscha). The average sizes of all these different species of fishes were 169 mm (starry flounder), 41 mm (chum salmon), 100 mm (spatulate sculpin), 104 mm (Dolly varden), and 36 mm (pink salmon). For the river habitat characteristics, the average depth of the river was 24.5 cm, the average velocity was 0.57 m/s, and lastly, the total discharge of the water was 1.79373. I enjoyed collecting data with all the other students and I enjoyed catching fish since it was my first time to catch any fishes.

~Pedro Andrew (Tiffany)

First week is FINALLY past and I need to take a shower! I’m sick of being in the wilderness and I’m tired of living in these so-called rooms. I’m already tired of hiking, but there’s probably a few hikes to go. Counting down the days to finally get back to the “world”. I MISS MY PHONE! I love this internet! Anyways, about class.. I learned a lot about FISHY facts . Things I never knew even if I deal with fish at home. I enjoyed that class. I have one more class to take in one of these 13 days I’m here. OH YEAH, I held a live fish! how gross and exciting!!! I went fish trapping for the first time! ha! It’s exciting since I never have gone fishing in my life. I saw a muskox, a reindeer, and a fox ! This place is a Beauti*. (All but the outhouses). However, I’M HAVING FUN AND I’M TRYING TO MAKE THE BEST OUT OF THIS TRIP! Trying my best to leave out the word “DEPRESSED”. Until next time, bye for now! TOODLES!

~Tiffany Andrew

Hmm…My trip here to Nunivak Island (Nash Harbor) was quite interesting. It’s been fun here discovering and learning new things while doing the hands-on activities. Although things have been pretty different, learning in a camp when you can hear the shower of the rain as if it were hailing, we have come over that problem and continued to learn. I would encourage all of you students who have been asked to apply and have been accepted. This trip has been a blast and am sure that it will continue to surprise me.

Students are onsite at Ellikarmiut. Arrival was just stupendous, flat calm seas and everyone and gear made the trip from Mekoryuk without any problem.

We have been meticulous about setting camp up this year and it has paid off…heated tents, great classroom and the best instructors, staff and students…we’re off to a great start.

More to come as the students begin documenting on this blog.

Martin Leonard III